Romney Hearts Ethanol Subsidies

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Wall Street Journal:

DES MOINES — It was an odd setting for a policy pronouncement, but on the sidewalk outside the Historical Building here, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney embraced ethanol subsidies. It came just days after and blocks from where his rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Tim Pawlenty, said the subsidies should be phased out.

“I support the subsidy of ethanol,” he told an Iowa voter. “I believe ethanol is an important part of our energy solution for this country.” Iowa leads the nation in the production of corn, a main source of ethanol.

Mr. Romney and a crowd that had come to see his first Iowa speech of the year had been evacuated from the Historical Building by a fire alarm. Amid the tumult, a woman asked if he was going to take any questions. He said given the circumstances, the question and answer part of the program appeared out of the question. So she presented him a typed out note demanding his position on ethanol, one she had intended to present at the presidential forum that had just abruptly ended.

His answer, delivered without hesitation, adhered to the orthodox position of politicians vying for Iowa votes. But it came just days after former Minnesota Gov. Pawlenty officially announced his candidacy and said the nation could no longer afford to subsidize ethanol, a position that he said backed up his claim to be the truth teller in the race.

That leaves the Republican primary contest with a peculiar situation: Mr. Pawlenty, a candidate who needs a strong showing, and possibly an outright victory, in Iowa is bucking a popular position. Mr. Romney, who may not contest Iowa as he focuses on other early states, has embraced most Iowans’ position.
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Romney is toast if this keeps up.

[Valin]

DES MOINES — It was an odd setting for a policy pronouncement, but on the sidewalk outside the Historical Building here, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney embraced ethanol subsidies.

 

Odd? Nothing odd about it.

 

 

And NO we do NOT approve of this.

[AceRimmer]

He's managed to step in the BS twice in the same week. This is supposed to be the GOP frontrunner?

 

Rick Perry and Sarah Palin must be licking their chops...

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Related: Is this an omen?

 

[Valin]

He's managed to step in the BS twice in the same week. This is supposed to be the GOP frontrunner?

 

Rick Perry and Sarah Palin must be licking their chops...

 

 

[Evad]

It's one thing to believe in BS before it is totally discredited..that would just be ignorance. Ignorance can be excused.

It's quite another thing to support something AFTER it has been discredited..that is obfuscation and plain lying...and it cannot be excused.

 

Romney has NO chance..bring on the next one.

[Evad]

R O M N E Y C A R E..

what else needs to be said?

[AceRimmer]

It's one thing to believe in BS before it is totally discredited..that would just be ignorance. Ignorance can be excused.

It's quite another thing to support something AFTER it has been discredited..that is obfuscation and plain lying...and it cannot be excused.

 

Romney has NO chance..bring on the next one.

 

Now we know why Obambi's "plumbers" are digging up any dirt they can find on Chris Cristie, Rick Perry, and any other potential GOP nominee.